Employment Development Department

The director of California’s troubled unemployment benefits department has resigned

California’s troubled unemployment benefits department will soon have its third director in the past two years.

After stealing the identities of death row inmates and even a sitting U.S. senator to make off with billions of dollars in fraudulent unemployment benefits during the pandemic, scammers have now moved on to impersonating doctors to dupe California officials into giving them disability checks.

A state lawmaker from Oakland is proposing new legislation to help close a loop in the Employment Development Department’s processing of appeals on denied unemployment claims. Kris Sanchez reports.

A state lawmaker from Oakland is proposing new legislation to help close a loop in the Employment Development Department’s processing of appeals on denied unemployment claims.

California may have paid out nearly $10 billion in phony coronavirus unemployment claims — more than double the previous estimate — with some money going to organized crime in Russia, China and other countries.

At least 350,000 debit cards filled with money for unemployment benefits in California have been frozen because of suspected fraud

The California unemployment agency’s two call centers to field questions about jobless benefits had two major problems as millions of people sought help due to the pandemic: One had nobody on site to answer calls and the other had hundreds of untrained new hires who didn’t know how to help callers.

An East Bay woman is in the midst of an unemployment claim nightmare.

An East Bay woman is in the midst of an unemployment claim nightmare. Marianne Favro reports.

A San Diego man says a scammer used his information to collect unemployment checks — but the thing is: He never lost his job, and now he says the unemployment office isn’t helping.

Almost 500,000 public school jobs have been lost during the pandemic, according to Labor Department Statistics, but many California teachers say they are having unique challenges trying to get their unemployment benefits.

A University Heights man says California’s unemployment system is broken

Workers who suddenly find themselves jobless because of the pandemic are most likely eligible for unemployment insurance benefits.

Workers who suddenly find themselves jobless because of the pandemic are most likely eligible for unemployment insurance benefits. Consumer investigator Chris Chmura reports.

Officials say California’s unemployment rate fell to a new record low of 4% in September.

California’s unemployment rate held steady at 4.2% in June.

California’s jobless rate fell to 4.2 percent in May, with particularly low unemployment in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Nine restaurants around Contra Costa County have been issued administrative fines for allegedly failing to provide workers’ compensation insurance, prosecutors announced Tuesday.

California’s unemployment rate fell to 4.4 percent in January, the lowest figure since 1976.